Exploratory Visits
Students discover a unique theme in two stages:
- One site visit, duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
- The exploration of a topic during an activity launch, duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
PROPOSED TOPICS
The Nazi worldview
For students from 9th to 12th grade
This activity focuses on the victims of Nazi persecution.
Themes: Nazism, anti-Gypsyism, homophobia, antisemitism, T4 operation, political opponents, resistance.
Historical period: WWII.
Supports: Archival documents, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial. Discovery and analysis of documents in small groups, then restitution.
Lights in the night: routes of Righteous Among the nations
20 YEARS SINCE THE RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE ENTERED THE PANTHEON
For students from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: Resistance, commitments, rescue, risks, memories.
Historical period: WWII.
Supports: Excerpts from books, archival documents, press articles, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.
Activity in the room: Guided discussion, Q&A game on the paths of European Just and restitution by group.
There were 13,000: the course of the Vel d'Hiv
85 YEARS AFTER THE HIV OUTBREAK
For students from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: Vel d'Hiv, roundup, memoirs, Justes de France, deportations, hidden children.
Historical periods: World War II, history of the present time.
Media: Photographs, letters, administrative documents, video clips, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.
Activity in the room: Discovery and analysis of documents in small groups then restitution.
Beate and Serge Klarsfeld: the fighters of memory –
For students from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: History, memoirs, justice, microhistory, postwar Germany.
Historical periods: World War II, contemporary history.
Supports: Family and administrative archives, testimonies, video extracts.
Activity in the room: Discovery and analysis of documents in small groups then restitution.
Images of the Holocaust on screen
For students from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: Representation of the genocide, testimony, cinematic language (animation, documentary, fiction film).
Media: Film clips, press articles, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.
Indoor activity: Analysis of film clips.
Genocides and places of memory
For 12th grade students
Themes: Recognition and memories of the Holocaust, the genocides of the Gypsies, the Armenians and the Tutsis.
Historical period: 20th century.
Supports: The places of memory of the Shoah Memorial, photographs, press articles.
Activity in the room: Discovery and analysis of documents in small groups then restitution.
Words about one’s ills: a literary journey
For students from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: Literature, Jewish cultures, antisemitism, Auschwitz-Birkenau, resistance, memoirs.
Historical periods: World War II, contemporary history.
Supports: Literary excerpts (Joseph Joffo, Aharon Appelfeld, Charlotte Delbo...), testimonies, sound clips, archives (photographs, administrative documents).
Classroom activity: Corpus of texts given to each student, reading and analysis in the permanent exhibition.
Foreigners in the Resistance 1940-1945 (CNRD) – NEW
Starting from November 2026
Level: from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: Resistance, commitment, repression, deportation.
Historical period: 1940 to 1945.
Supports: Archival documents, written testimonies and video.
Activities: Group work on archival documents and restitution
